Not myself,but those guys are really into it.At my LHS he caters to the gaming crowd so everytime I go in there there is a group having a game,he has gaming nights there also.I watch sometimes,it's pretty fascinating,they model and paint their own pieces whether it be old,modern,or fantasy.It seems to be turn based using dice.But again I never tried it.

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I used to be HUGE into it back in the late 80's. It can get very pricy. I played both modern and ww2 armor (where one miniature equaled a platoon) and I had boxes full equaling to a division of American, German, Nato and Warpac. My other love was WW2 navel and 1800’s sail. I also dabbled in fantasy. We would use a spare room at the Schofield Barracks Library on Oahu and start Friday night after our work sometime around 6pm members would wonder in. These games would last all night and sometimes we would leave the pieces in place until the next week to finish a particular large scenario.

I miss those time greatly, but I was single then and could never be able to git away with that now. In fact, I just sold all my minitatures to the local gaming club last year and give away prices...painted and all.

I play Dungeons and Dragons and have thousands of figures of characters and monsters by now. We've done a few other stuff like a 'Star Wars' game and one where we were supervillians. 

The wargaming always sounded cool but I never knew anyone else into it enough to play with. I do play a bunch against the computer though.

I've played a variety of miniatures games over the years starting in 1977. The group I played with did tabletop games from the ancient, medieval and renaissance periods mostly, plus I engaged in a lot of naval combat, mostly from the pre-Dreadnought era.

Biggest, though, was 3-D airwar, from the beginning of WW1 through the modern era. Not on a tabletop, but on the floor, with wheeled stands and 6' sticks which allow for full maneuvering in all dimensions, using mostly 1/72 scale models. In fact most of the models I build these days are for gaming.

Yes.  I'm a big hex and counter groupie. Love the old Avalon Hill and SPI classics...

  I love tabletop gaming. At the moment I'm playing two skirmish size games: guild ball ( medieval soccer ) and Malifaux. They are both low model count games that don't take a lot of time to finish. 

   I enjoy the hobby aspect of these games as well as the social interaction. The buy in isn't that bad, but if you get hooked you can end up with " gaming stash ". 

   The up side is I rarely get modeler's block. I'm always wanting to work on a traditional model or on a gaming model. 

    The down side is it does take time and money away from regular modeling.  I've been saving up for the 1/32 Dornier 335, but used some of it for a new crew for a Malifaux tournament in July. Now I'm back to saving pennies again. 

That 3D airwar sounds really cool. I have had some Avalon Hill games; my favorite is "Flight Leader ", and I picked up an old "Luftwaffe " game as well. They are a lot of fun, especially when you pair up a Phantom against a mig17.

Back in the day, my old band mates / room mates had their "gaming night".....I called them nerds and went to the basement to nerd out with my models!

The gaming never did appeal to me in any way, but I do pick up a couple figs (mostly war hammer) to paint, for a change of pace.

I got into "wargaming" in the late 70s, starting out with WRG rules.  Over the years, I played various genres from WWI aerial combat to Star Fleet Battles using miniatures and different rule sets.  Seeing a Napoleonic battle with thousands of miniatures is a sight to behold!

But one thing I found is this:  wargamers tend to do more fighting over the rules than they do over the tabletop, and there's the problem of "1000 ft. tall generals" as the saying goes.  Being able to see the entire table and the enemy's troop dispositions has always been a problem.  Add to that the expense and you can see why the hobby has never had a large following.

I sold all my miniatures years back and have not regreted it.  Computer games are much cheaper.

GAF, you have to point out that 'table-top' miniature war gaming is a different genre than hex and counter board gaming, which in its heyday had a rather large following.  There are several sub-types of war gaming being discussed in here: computer, role-playing, hex and counter, miniatures, etc...all are very different, in presentation, playability, rules and realism...

I'm an old, dyed-in-the-wool hex and counter gamer, and some of these leave players blind as they were in the real action, such as Avalon Hill's 'Midway'...

Very cool, I've always been interested in the really deep games but somehow I don't have the patience I used to have. Now I'm more a beer and pretzels sorta gamer... 

Gamera

Very cool, I've always been interested in the really deep games but somehow I don't have the patience I used to have. Now I'm more a beer and pretzels sorta gamer... 

 

Stratego

Lol, maybe not that simple! Battle of Germany and Red Devils sound cool though but as I said I really don't have anyone to play tabletop with. 

I have been playing a few PC 'beer & pretzel' games like the 'Panzer Corps' games, just finished 'Allied Corps'. It's pretty cool that if you win a major victory in the 'Operation Market Garden' mission it goes off just as Monty planned- with you able to ram your whole army over the Rhine, storm Berlin in late '44 and end the war by Christmas. Then you get a surprise 'bonus' mission where Stalin screws over the allience and you end up fighting the Red Army...

And 'Order of Battle: Pacific' is pretty cool. It's not too complex, I've seen some that track every single plane of every single carrier, this ain't it- it's streamlined for fast play but still decently deep.

A game that was simple, fun, didn't need a table and was pretty quick to play was a picture book game called "Ace of Aces" by Nova Game Designs. Some of us would play each other while we were waiting for our turn on the "real" game.

modelcrazy

Stratego

 

I am requesting one of the highest of fives ever high fived!!!

Wow Steve, I'd never heard of 'Aces of Aces' but I had to look it up. The books sound like a novel and very elegant system.

Gamera

I play Dungeons and Dragons and have thousands of figures of characters and monsters by now. We've done a few other stuff like a 'Star Wars' game and one where we were supervillians. 

The wargaming always sounded cool but I never knew anyone else into it enough to play with. I do play a bunch against the computer though.

 

 

Same here. We played D&D and AD&D but never played those war games of the same era like "Panzer... something". My brother came home one day with Gamma World, but we never did start it. I still have all those games too.

Revenant

 

 

Gamera

Very cool, I've always been interested in the really deep games but somehow I don't have the patience I used to have. Now I'm more a beer and pretzels sorta gamer... 

 

 There are several beer & pretzel hex and counter games that are designed for quicker and simpler play if that's you're thing...Battle Of Germany and Red Devils are two that come to mind...

 

modelcrazy

Stratego

 

yes, Stratego. And don't forget Battleship. I have Talking Battleship which is the same thing but with sound effects. 

Yes, to the Beer Battle Gaming !

I played Battleship with my friends long before it was released as a game for sale. So I looked it up and found out that it was published as a pad and pencil game back in the '30s, and has been around since WW1.

I remember using sheets of graph paper and a pencil on a clip board.  I never was any good at it.

May be another reason I went into the Air Force when  got drafted.

I did use to play Battletech a lot with my kid.  Somehow I ended up painting his figures too.

ikar01, Nice looking game figs and pieces. I used graph paper and pencil in 2004, when by buddy moved away and we'd send grid coordinates over email

Sailor Steve

I played Battleship with my friends long before it was released as a game for sale. So I looked it up and found out that it was published as a pad and pencil game back in the '30s, and has been around since WW1.

 

Interesting, I didn't know that 

WOW! I was thinking BOARD GAMES. I play Scrabble with my mom, Monopoly, Sorry, the original version of Stratego, and Life.  Mostly back in the day it was Battleship, and D&D, and Monopoly. I sold off all my uncles' D&D figures most of which were unpainted, and he had paid THOSANDS in todays' money for them! It's been a long day with games. I play mostly online now - Forge of Empires. I've played the stuff that Xbox sells, and most of the games that I played were the Nintendo 64, and I still do, but not for a few months now since I started playing the Forge of Empires game.

~ Cobra Chris

My now retired boss and now a contractor plays a Battle of the Bulge game nationally.  Him and his group had done so much research on the Bulge that they were asked to provide the Order Of Battle for Charles B. MacDonald's book, "A Time For Trumpets".